Kamen Stoyanov

Cleaning the Black Sea, 2019

With Katharina Swoboda
video, hd, 2 min, color

The video was shot in “Morske Gradina” (“sea garden”) in Varna, Bulgaria. There, the artists encountered a modell of the Black Sea. Because the model is not cleaned regulary, natural waste and waste from the park visitors end up in the bassin. It is not allowed to enter the model, so people are not allowed to get in, but only to look at. In a performative action, the artists clean the model and therefor hint to the “secret“ space of the deep sea, where all the actual waste from the countries surrounding the Black Sea end up. Also the model shows these cities: Varna, Burgas, Sewastopol, etc. Images of the cleaning action are mixed with footage shot in the aquarium, which is just besides the model.